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Niger: Experts of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination … Ask Questions on Descent-Based Slavery and Child Statelessness

Published: 14/Apr/2023
Source: Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

Experts of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Welcome Restoration of “A” Status for Niger’s National Human Rights Commission, Ask Questions on Descent-Based Slavery and Child Statelessness The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its […]

Gupta brothers are still South African citizens, says Aaron Motsoaledi

Published: 14/Apr/2023
Source: TimesLIVE (Johannesburg)

Questions raised over brothers’ Vanuatu citizenship Kgaugelo Masweneng Reporter The Gupta brothers, Atul and Rajesh, are still using South African passports and are still citizens, says home affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi. The minister revealed this during a news briefing on […]

House of Representatives approves amendments to Egyptian Citizenship Law

Published: 12/Apr/2023
Source: Egypt Today

CAIRO – 12 April 2023: The House of Representatives approved Wednesday the amendment of Article 6 of law no. 26/1975 on the Egyptian citizenship, granting women of foreign origin the right to pass the nationality to their minor children whose […]

Uganda’s Bagabu’s long fight for ancestral land, recognition

Published: 11/Apr/2023
Source: The East African

By BAMUTURAKI MUSINGUZI Uganda’s indigenous community the Bagabu has never recovered from the trauma of being evicted from their ancestral land, Bunyampaka Chiefdom, by the British colonial government where it established Queen Elizabeth National Park. In the 17th century, majority […]

En RDC, une proposition de loi qualifiée de raciste fait des remous

Published: 10/Apr/2023
Source: Le Monde (Paris)

La proposition de loi dite « Tshiani » prévoit que les candidats aux plus hautes fonctions de l’Etat soient de père et de mère congolais. Un projet qui inquiète à huit mois de la présidentielle. Des puissants dirigeants de l’Eglise catholique congolaise […]

RDC: la proposition de loi sur la “congolité” divise

Published: 6/Apr/2023
Source: Deutsche Welle

En RDC, la loi dite “loi Tshiani” vise à réserver les plus hautes fonctions de l’État, dont la présidence de la République, aux seuls Congolais nés de père et de mère congolais. Débat. Déposé à l’Assemblée nationale en juillet 2021, […]

Over 1M Undocumented Ethnic South Sudanese Thought to Be in Sudan

Published: 3/Apr/2023
Source: Voice of America

More than 10 years after South Sudan split from Sudan, as many as 1.2 million ethnic South Sudanese could be living in Sudan without citizenship for either country, the U.N. refugee agency says. In this report from Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, […]

Ethiopian National ID Program

Published: 3/Apr/2023
Source: Ethiopian Ministry of Justice

What is the newly adopted Ethiopian Digital Identity Proclamation Number 1284/2023 all about? Download PDF: Ethiopian National ID Program Apr2023

RDC : appels à l’abandon d’une proposition de loi sur la “congolité”

Published: 3/Apr/2023
Source: VOA Afrique

Des premiers concernés aux évêques catholiques, en passant par des formations politiques et associations de la société civile, en République démocratique du Congo, les prises de position se multiplient contre un projet de loi controversé sur la “congolité”. Cette proposition […]

Digital Identity and the legal obligation to conduct a human rights impact assessment in Kenya

Published: 1/Apr/2023
Source: University of California, Berkeley’s International Human Rights Law Clinic and Haki Na Sheria Initiative

Introduction Famously described as “the right to have rights,” nationality – and the identity documentation to prove this nationality – are fundamental rights in and of themselves, and operate as requirements to access a huge swath of government services and […]